3 Mar
2014
3 Mar
'14
10:36 p.m.
On Mar 3, 2014, at 7:01 PM, Erik Hoffman wrote:
Jim Saxe gives a long discussion about how to
"teach" getting into
the basket.
In fact, I offered three options for dealing with potential
confusion about forming the basket from the circle. In brief,
they were:
1. ... just relax ... ... As different people take turns
being "Jack", the action of making the basket can start
working better and batter ...
2. ... dispense with the fancy method of forming the basket.
...
3. ... During the walkthrough have "Jack" raise *both*
arms ... Now "Jack" can successfully turn ... either way.
... [Really a pretty brief suggestion, though I led up to
it with a somewhat wordy analysis.]
I understand Erik to be advocating option 1, and I fully agree
that that can often be a good choice. I wasn't at all intending
to put it up as a "straw man" and then knock it down.
By the way, in "Cottontail Rag"/"Hot Tub Rag"/"Jack Turn
Back", as
described in the RPDLW syllabi I cited, dancers form the basket
starting from a ring where one dancer is already facing out with
arms crossed. So the issue I address with option 3 (getting into
that position from an ordinary circle with all facing in) doesn't
even come up.
--Jim